(Finance) – Terna strengthens its commitment to adopting the most innovative technologies for an even more efficient and sustainable management of electricity infrastructures, in particular submarine ones. There company led by Giuseppina Di Foggia inaugurated a new chapter in its innovation journey by launching a testing of Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) technology in collaboration with Wsense, deep-tech company leader in monitoring and communication systems for the underwater environment.
In the future energy scenario, in fact, the strategic backbones created through submarine electrical cables they will be increasingly widespread and their implementation will require the adoption of innovative solutions that guarantee the safety of the assets and the monitoring of environmental conditions in the vicinity of the works. L’Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) represents a new technological horizon capable of ensuring more intelligent and sustainable management of submarine connections through advanced monitoring and real-time communication of indicative underwater parameters to analyze the anthropic impact at sea.
The testing of IoT technology took place in the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Piombino canal. In detail, Wsense has set up a system of underwater probes, connected to each other in an underwater wi-fi network for data transmission. Through this submarine network it was possible to acquire in real time, for a prolonged and continuous period of time, data for monitoring the marine ecosystem relating to different parameters: underwater noise, current measurement, chlorophyll, water temperature and turbidity.
“The Internet of Underwater Things technology offers promising prospects for monitoring underwater environmental conditions, representing an example of the energy and digital Twin Transition that Terna pursues with the aim of creating an increasingly sustainable electricity system. We are constantly committed in seeking integrated solutions, aimed at developing and managing underwater networks in an increasingly efficient manner. The technology tested with Wsense, in this context, could pave the way for implementing innovative approaches to environmental mitigation and protection of the marine ecosystem”, he said. declared Giacomo Donnini, director of major projects and international development at Terna.
“For many years we have been using IoT sensors to monitor the state of the transmission network, in order to improve its reliability and resilience. Together with Wsense, for the first time – he commented Massimiliano Garri, director of Innovation & Market Solutions at Terna – we moved beneath the surface of the sea and experimented with the potential of an underwater data transmission network capable of detecting those aspects of the underwater ecosystem that are useful for us to create and manage large submarine connections with ever greater efficiency. The Internet of Underwater Things represents a new horizon of possibilities for Terna to optimize the transmission of electricity under the sea”.
There experimentation with Wsense, which reflects Terna’s growing interest in adopting advanced solutions to improve the reliability of its network, aimed to evaluate, in addition to the performance of the IoT technology, its adaptability to the specific needs of the Group. The results obtained highlighted the very promising potential of this technological solution. The experimentation also involved, in an effective collaboration, both the Innovation team and the Major Projects and International Development team of Terna which manages the construction of large underwater infrastructures.